Talent Quotes

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

~ Kevin Bacon

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.

~ Bob Saget

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

~ Kat Dennings

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

~ Sydney Smith

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.

~ Ving Rhames

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

~ Nelson Mandela

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

~ Layne Staley

As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

~ Wen Jiabao

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

~ Johnny Depp

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

~ Robert Schumann

There are many singers who have got an exceptional talent, but spend their lives singing in local trains or hotels. Does the country even know who they are? Music in India is restricted only to Bollywood. Whoever manages to make a mark there is remembered. The ones who fail to reach and make it big there are forgotten.

~ Sonu Nigam

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

~ Jonathan Swift

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

~ Hermann Hesse

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

~ Michael Jordan

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

~ J.k. Rowling

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

~ Willa Cather

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

~ Washington Irving

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

~ Daniel Boulud

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

~ Freddy Adu

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

~ Don Zimmer

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

~ Hillary Clinton

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

~ J.k. Rowling

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

~ Jimmy Dean

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

~ Michael Schumacher

You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.'

~ Tori Amos

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

~ Emmitt Smith

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

~ Joe Lo Truglio

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

~ Honoré De Balzac

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

~ Louisa May Alcott

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

~ James Jannard

Talent is God-given be humble. Fame is man-given be thankful. Conceit is self-given be careful.

~ Harvey Mackay

I'm just thankful to be blessed with my talent.

~ Ty Dolla Sign

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

~ Darlene Love